Articles tagged ‘Tony Blair’
Daily Dose 06.27
By Chris | June 27th, 2007 |
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* Metropolitan Police pay out £13million in compensation for traffic accidents involving their officers since 2002.(BBCNews)
* California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is last foreign visitor Tony Blair see’s at 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister before leaving office.(DailyMail)
* Clapham Junction station to have ‘intelligent CCTV’ installed to protect it against terrorist attacks.(Telegraph)
Daily Dose 06.20
By Chris | June 20th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* London Mayor Ken Livingstone backs down for the moment after rejecting nine nominees to London’s fire authority because they were too white and too male. He probably thinks female Somali asylum seekers would make better candidates.(BBCNews)
* Tony Blair tells Parliament he regrets the early release of 25,000 prisoners because of prison overcrowding. Everybody else [...]
Did Tony Blair’s record achieve what he promised?
By Chris | May 11th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
With Tony Blair still in the warm glow of praise from party colleagues and world leaders after saying he’s retiring as Prime Minister, here’s a look back at the promises he and New Labour made way back in the late 1990s. Checking them one by one they don’t seem to have kept many, especially [...]
Tony Blair sets leaving date
By Chris | May 10th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
Tony Blair announced today that he’s stepping down as Prime Minister on 27 June after ten years in the job. He’s been laying out what a fantastic job he and Labour have done in that time, a lot of bullshit in my opinion, you could spend all day going over the lies, spin, and bad [...]
Daily Dose 05.01
By Chris | May 1st, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* England football captain John Terry’s girlfriend filmed herself giving birth to their twins on her mobile phone. Why so classy.(TheSun)
* The lemmings were out in force again in London last night after Top Shop launched a range of clothes with Kate Moss’s name on it. They could have collected all her dumps from the [...]
Daily Dose 02.27
By Chris | February 27th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
* Prince Charles calls for the banning of McDonald’s food to promote a more healthier lifestyle. Easy for him to say, I can’t see him being a big McDonald’s eater.(EveningStandard)
* Number of women over 40 having children in the UK doubles in ten years. Call it the Madonna factor.(Telegraph)
* You can tell the sports authorities [...]
The voice of the people
By Chris | February 13th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The government is trying to limit the PR damage to its proprosed road pricing schemes from the enormous number of names added to the petition against them on 10 Downing Street’s own website.
10 Downing Street is the official residence of the British Prime Minister and last year they started a programme on their website letting [...]
Congestion Charge extension
By Chris | February 7th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
The expansion of London’s Congestion Charge zone happens this month on the 19th February when the area including Belgravia, South Kensington, Chelsea, Bayswater and Notting Hill all come under the £8 a day blanket if you want to drive your vehicle into or through that part of town. It’ll be in operation from 7am-6pm, Mon-Fri, [...]
2012 to be the greenest games
By Chris | January 23rd, 2007 | Add a Comment »
2012 days to go to 27 July 2012 and the start of the London Olympics and Tony Blair and the organisers have been trumpeting what a green games London’s will be, better than any previous we’re told. I’m always sceptical when someone like Blair starts waving the flag for something, there’s always a hidden agenda [...]
Daily Dose 12.15
By Chris | December 15th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
* Tony Blair, first sitting Prime Minister to be questioned by police in criminal enquiry. No one’s surprised this government’s full of crooks.(EveningStandard)
* Break out the champagne, strike up the band, the Piccadilly Line is 100 years old, and they’re still using the same trains.(BBCNews)
